[Diana spoke true when she said she had no weapons on her person, but that doesn't mean she's defenseless. The other woman leaps with her blade drawn, and Diana's response is automatic, rote memory from thousands of years of training: she lifts both of her arms in front of her, bracers poised to take the sword's blow. The Amazonian armor will not shatter, or even scratch beneath the blow, and Diana herself, braced as she is, does not falter.]
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Stop this!